Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?

Alex is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.

There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.

How can the Alex survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)

Can you count the number of triangles inside a triangle?

There are are five things wrong with this sentence; only geniuses will be able to to spot all of the mitstakes

I know a nine-letter word having only one vowel.
Do you ?

There is a place where if I stand up straight, I will still be considered sideways.

Jack have ten pairs of black socks, eight pairs of white socks and seven pairs of green socks. Everything is mixed in a draw. As there is no light he were not able to identify the colour of the socks. How many of the socks did he want to take to match one pair

Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men do ?

A maths symbol is hidden in the below Bar Graph. Can you decipher it?

Can you find out the remainder when 3^300 is divided by 5?